LED lamps consume several times less electrical energy than incandescent bulbs.
I mean nowadays it is possible to save energy on lighting by less radical measures.
However, it would be very hard to cancel Daylight Saving Time. As there will be undoubtedly political populists trying to construct a career by defending this tradition.
A good part of opposition to reducing lighting energy came from governments pushing "energy saving" (ie, CFL) bulbs -- "energy saving bulb" being literally the name used in trade, at least in Poland. These bulbs cause massive pollution, are very dangerous if broken, and are unhealthy for eyesight (both due to flickering and bad spectrum).
Despite these flaws, legislation sounded like "energy saving" are the second coming while incadescents are Hitler reincarnated; obviously, some favours from CFL makers were involved. This made the public lose any trust in such measures.
And as most voters are irrational, a voice that says "THEY want to again change things contrary to what we always did" can indeed gain some votes.
Which "Energy saving" bulbs are you talking about?... cause the OP was taking about LED bulbs which are solid state not Fluorescent ones. Compact fluorescent are particularly high in mercury and they are (or they used to be) a bit of a bitch to recycle. LED lights also contain various kinds of metals including lead,nickel, some also contain arsenic and (surprise, surprise) copper. However, incandescent bulbs contain very high levels of lead and mercury so it's not as if we are transitioning to something more polluting, it just that the LED bulb uses less energy than the incandescent and it lasts longer. Incidentally the most polluting LEDs are the coloured ones, it's the white LEDs that are most used for light bulbs who seem to contain the fewest contaminants. In the end the most important thing is which one of these, Incandescent, fluorescent or LEDs are the easiest to recycle and not rating LEDs as being disposable in conventional landfills. LED bulbs are electronics and should be sent to recycling plants like any other electronics waste for recycling since LEDs are up to 95% recyclable. Recycling is also important because of the lead and arsenic in the coloured LEDs which needs to be collected and safely disposed of or re-used.
C. elegans is the only living being whose neural system has been analysed completely. It can be drawn as a circuit diagram or reproduced by computer software, so that the neural activity of the worm is simulated by a computer program.
They took the simulation of the worm's brain and trained it to balance a stick. They didn't build a neural network from the ground up with the sole intent of balancing a stick.
Yup, in fact the FA says:
This behaviour can be perfectly explained: it is determined by the worm’s nerve cells and the strength of the connections between them. When this simple reflex-network is recreated on a computer, then the simulated worm reacts in exactly the same way to a virtual stimulation – not because anybody programmed it to do so, but because this kind of behaviour is hard-wired in its neural network.
While narrow-AI that can totally trash any human at chess or something but sucks at everything else is interesting for limited applications it is neural networks that is the future of AI. It will be a long time before it is possible to design a set of algorithms that can outperform the result of 4,2 billion years of evolution. If you can simulate the neural network/brain of an insect or something of that level of sophistication, complete with its ocular and audio sensors you have the basics for the AI to run a self driving car better than anything we have today. We currently solve the problem of a self driving car with computers that are huge and use a monstrous amount of energy compared to what nature came up with. Nature packed the solution to a similar problem into a portion of the brain of an ant that lives on the amount of energy contained in the minuscule amount of protein it consumes daily. So, if you are an AI researcher, and if you find yourself proudly looking at the server running your self driving car software, take a look at an ant and realise that you have a looooooong way to go.
Wisconsin is paying nothing by offering tax breaks and tax credits for a company that otherwise would not even be setting up shop in Wisconsin.
You seem to assume that a government wouldn't be that stupid and corrupt, but you're totally wrong.
To lure Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, state residents will have to do more than just forgo taxes from the Taiwanese electronics giant. They will have to pay cash — writing checks for up to $200 million a year.
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And because Wisconsin already waives almost all taxes on manufacturing profits in the state, these incentives represent not a lost opportunity at collecting revenue but an obligation to pay cash to Foxconn out of the state treasury for up to 15 years. When including a $150 million sales tax break for buying construction material, the incentive package could total up to $3 billion, according to the bill that lawmakers could vote on as soon as Tuesday.
Don't worry Wisconsin is a Republican controlled state. As we all now Republicans are the party of low taxes, small government and restraint in state expenditure. We can therefore rely upon them to vote no to this vast expenditure of money from the state treasury on the grounds that it makes no sense from a business point of view, that it is an intolerable government interference in the workings of the free market and that it is not in harmony with their long treasured Republican ideals of small government and limiting expenditure from the state treasury. Sir, you may rely upon the Republicans to be the voice of reason in this matter.
lol You are an idiot. Shenzhen is in China. This news is happening in Taiwan. How did you even get Shenzhen when it's not mentioned anywhere?? The subtitle is 'Taiwan's Innolux upbeat on mini LED display that can be used in cars'. How in the world do you miss that? God, you are probably American too. We are so fucked if this is the level of reading comprehension in this country.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company to be sure but it operates factories in mainland China. One of those factories is a flat-panel display factory in Shenzhen, China. He probably assumed that Foxconn is making these panels there which is not an unreasonable assumption. Myself, I have no idea where these panels are being made, it could be that Foxconn also has a flat-panel factory in Taiwan so this is my first and last contribution to this flame war.
Nothing says protecting nature like 100 windmills on your ocean front view.
Or 100 dead ospreys on your beach.
Tall glass buildings kill waaay more birds than wind turbines. Why don't you start with those ugly eyesores. Also, birds and other animals going extinct because of climate change is far uglier in my opinion.
True, in fact research has shown that feral and domestic cats, power lines, windows, pesticides, automobiles and lighted communication towers all kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines. Furthermore, if I have to choose between gasoline fumes, diesel dust, NOx pollution, etc,.... and having my view spoilt by a few wind turbines then give me the turbines thank you very much.
1. New York Builds Windfarm for electricity
2.....
3. Oil for liquid fuel, Feedstocks, plastics and lubricants on the way out ?
~48% of oil is used to make gasoline.
~23% is used to make diesel and heating oil.
~10 % is used to make jet fuel.
~5% is used to make asphalt.
The vast majority of oil is used for transportation. Feedstocks, plastics and lubricants fit somewhere into the remaining ~15% of oil that isn't used for transportation. Wind and solar are getting cheaper than oil and gas, oil extraction costs are only increasing, the cost of wind and solar is still on a downwards trend and will stay there for a while. Finally, electric vehicles are starting to take over the transportation sector and not just cars, people are even working on electrically powered ships and thinking about electric aircraft on short haul flights. All of this collectively means that the bottom is going to slowly fall out of the fossil fuel market over the next two or three decades and I don't think feedstocks, plastics and lubricants are going to sustain the oil industry in the long term at it's current levels of production. There is a reason the oil companies are starting to have trouble recruiting young people for the industry and it isn't just because all 'Millennials' and 'Generation Z' is a bunch of lib-tard tree huggers, they just see this coming.
Microsoft was just getting used to separating user space functions, which had turned XP prior to SP2 into an eggshell, so easily exploited that even bad script kiddies could pop a bubble and p0wn a machine.
Virus makers were a red herring. So were driver makers. It because impossible to regression test Windows because the software communities had build so many dependencies into the system, which were changed just as quickly by Microsoft.
Vista was simply a turd. There's no better way to describe it, and it's only after screaming hostilities did Microsoft pour sufficient resources to fix it so as to negate Vista into the more stable Windows 7-- which killed a lot of legacy problems, but also software compatibilities, libraries, functions, and functionality/behaviors.
Microsoft needed the money-- back during the phase where they made money on CALs and discrete licensing fees. In the middle of it, chaos ensued. It was a disaster.
Huh? That's interesting. I always figured Vista was Microsoft's second attempt at hitting the Ballmer Peak.
How about a cop who wants to protect life and serve the people of his community rather than shoot them? Let’s hire cops like that.
Learn what’s going on before opening fire on people. Or don't be police officers at all.
We don’t need you to shoot us. We can shoot each other just fine. We need a police force to prevent violence and loss of life, not cause it.
That is a very valid criticism and generally a good idea that works just fine in many other parts of the world to the point where some countries don't even arm their police officers. Your suggestion is, unfortunately, also fundamentally incompatible with the traditional American fondness for 'come down on them like a ton of bricks' justice where police are heavily militarised, eager to shoot first and ask questions later and trained by defence contractors to use tactics pioneered by the US Army and the IDF when dealing with insurgents in the Middle East.
Another awww. Useless shills like you should be outright banned. Your worse than paid advertising for apple. If you dont like it here maybe/. isnt for you. Spread your lies elsewhere; appleinsider seems pretty tech ignorant, try your luck there.
Dang, it's been a while since I came across somebody who sucked as much ass at trolling as you do.
it will put you where you would have been if this feature had not been implemented.
It will give people back all the time they lost waiting for their slow-assed phone all this time? No? Yeah.
It won't. It does not people people where they would have been. Stop apologizing for apple using insane bullshit logic.
Congratulations, by trashing Apple for not extending your lifespan by the same amount of minutes you feel you lost waiting for apps to load you have finally taken Apple hatred beyond what the laws of physics can deliver.
If I'm going to be taxed by anybody I'd prefer it be the government because I can oust those bozos every four years by voting them out out of office.
That's where you're wrong.
You might be able to cast a vote every four years but your vote alone doesn't change your situation. If you just change service providers (assuming that it's possible in the first place) then your situation is immediately improved.
Furthermore, the TLAs (i.e. the FCC) do not change every four years because you voted for a new president or a new senator or whatever. So it's actually incorrect that you can oust the "bozos" every four years. There's a reason that the euphemism "revolving door" exists.
To go yet further still: what exactly has changed when one party takes power? The rhetoric does, but not much else as far as I can tell. It seems to me that it's just more crap from a different butt hole and meanwhile the deficits continue and the debt climbs and the roads still suck and the same "corporate oligarchs" that you complain about are still abusing their monopolies (assuming their protection money is all paid up...).
The real solution is two fold:
1. Cut government power: this prevents them from creating or protecting monopolies.
2. Break up the monopolies and end all protections for them thus forcing them to compete.
One small point... monopolies can exist in the complete absence of any government at all so your supposition that government power is the key factor in creating monopolies is wrong. In fact, historically, government power has been one of the few things that broke up monopolies so you are going to need government power to end monopolies (because contrary to popular myth, the fairy godmother of the free market won't do it for you within an acceptable time frame) so if you cut government power you are strengthening the monopolist's power.
Carriers are required to provide that information to the federal government. It's one of the things in the FISA bills that keep quietly passing Congress.
Are you seriously asserting carriers are continuously sending the wareabouts of every cell user to the federal government? If so feel free to backup your claim with publically available evidence. Wholesale collection of CDRs from everyone was ended years ago.
Yup, and what makes people think that the government agency running this national 5G network would just alluvasudden ignore whatever laws there are in place that currently prevent the security services from bullying private mobile service providers into tracking every user's location in real time and warehouse the data? If the US security apparatus wanted to implement an Orwellian system to monitor the movements of every US citizen via their cellphone it will not make a damn bit of difference whether the 5G network is publicly or privately owned.
You're making a big assumption: The government can implement the network competently.
Consider healthcare.gov.
That is a double edged argument. There are plenty of examples from all over the world where private enterprise took over previously government owned and operated road & rail grids, water supply systems, electric grids, communications grids, public real estate assets, etc... that gave these private parties an effective monopoly. They then let then let these things fall apart through lack of maintenance and investment while effectively taxing the hell out of citizenry. That last part is what has effectively happened in the US mobile and internet service sectors. The telcos have divvied the country up into competition free fiefdoms and are taxing the hell out of the citizenry for totally sub standard service. If I'm going to be taxed by anybody I'd prefer it be the government because I can oust those bozos every four years by voting them out out of office. Ousting corporate oligarchs takes billions of dollars and a hostile takeover.
Placing government in control of a 5G network everyone uses grants government means of directly tracking high resolution movements of everyone everywhere in real time. Hard to come up with a worse more dangerous idea than this one.
Why? All that is necessary now to achieve total surveillance is bully all the big providers into feeding the NSA data or just to allow the NSA unrestricted access to each providers backbone and the NSA has done that already. The horrible eventuality you foresee is already the norm thanks to the Republicans and Corporate Democrats (a few lone dissidents on both sides excepted). One big advantage of a national 5G grid would be that new service providers will be able to get equal access to the national grid and to challenge the big boys and eliminate the mobile service fiefdoms the US is currently divided up into and if there is no equal access it would be easier to bully the Fed into allowing it on a national grid by going through the courts than fighting a bunch of Telcos operating as a cartel. In Europe communities with municipal network backbones often have the liveliest competition and the lowest prices due to equal access for everybody both big national and small local players. Of course competition should have been enforced long a go through cartel, price fixing and competition laws since the US Telcos have not made much effort to hide their anti-competitive behaviour. Still, I wouldn't worry, the big Telcos are hard at work lobbying to kill this idea of a national 5G grid to protect their competition free fiefdoms so the current totally rotten system is safe.
Because the location isn't sensitive. These bases aren't hidden, they are fortified forward operating positions.
What is inside the base is sensitive, what information there is sensitive, what force composition is there is sensitive.
Oh well there's no problem then.
The Russians know where these bases are, the Chinese know where these bases are, they both also know what force composition is there because they have satellites photographing these bases at regular intervals and in some cases probably ground assets sniffing around them as well, even the news media probably knows the location of many of these bases. The only people who didn't know the location of most of these bases is the general public and the vast majority of them don't care.
The electoral college is a check and balance against gerrymandering. Of course, gerrymandering still won him the presidency. But don't blame the electoral college.
There is no gerrymandering in presidential elections except the electoral college. It is an obsolete 18th century election result manipulation instrument meant to guard against precisely the kind of demagogue that Trump is. However, the electoral college hasn’t worked as intended for over a century because for it to work the college members would have to think for thrmselves and vote against the demagogue rather than vote like sheep for him. Presidential elections should be a one-man-one-vote, popular vote wins affair, end of story!
As much as I enjoy seeing a frothing-at-the-mouth temper tantrum from a disappointed Hillary lover, I must point out that you don't get to change the rules after the game already been played. In the real world, losers don't get "participant" trophies that pampered millennials have come to expect. The electoral college is working as intended. The great compromise helps the lesser populated states from getting railroaded by the population centers. When you finish jumping up and down ranting about how CA, NY and the high population cities should be the deciders for all the rest of us, maybe you will wise up and see why we don't want to turn our power over to the nanny staters, crybullies, and the irrational numbskulls that think Hillary should be "reinstated". You're going to need a Constitutional amendment to drop the electoral college and I don't see it being ratified by the states you disagree with. So, in short, tough shit loser.
Hehe... Did you know that it is possible to win the electoral college and become POTUS with ~27% of the popular vote behind you? If that ever happens I hope whoever does it is a Clinton just so that I can hear you shriek so loud with outrage that your shrill, high-pitched girly scram shatters armour glass.
...the electoral college....is an obsolete 18th century election result manipulation instrument...
It's amazing how so many apparently smart people do not understand the "electoral college." It lessens the chance that the President is selected only by the voters of a few metropolises. Anyhow, if you didn't learn about the "electoral college" in school you can learn about it at Wikipedia (assuming there's a good article for it there that hasn't been vandalized by anti-American ideologues).
Are you referring to the good old argument that the electoral college is gerrymandered '...to protect the little states...'? If the electoral college was meant to protect the little states it is failing spectacularly. If you take a look at where candidates campaign the most it is in a few key swing states. The small states get next to no attention.
The electoral college is a check and balance against gerrymandering. Of course, gerrymandering still won him the presidency. But don't blame the electoral college.
There is no gerrymandering in presidential elections except the electoral college. It is an obsolete 18th century election result manipulation instrument meant to guard against precisely the kind of demagogue that Trump is. However, the electoral college hasn’t worked as intended for over a century because for it to work the college members would have to think for thrmselves and vote against the demagogue rather than vote like sheep for him. Presidential elections should be a one-man-one-vote, popular vote wins affair, end of story!
For all that long rant, you missed the point. Impeach Trump and you don't get a do-over, you get the line of succession.
I know that, you get Pence and then Paul Ryan, Orrin Hatch, Rex Tillerson.... (bit like a monarchy isn’t it?)... but I don’t care about that. The only two points I was trying to make are, a) Trump’s presidency is many things but it is not the will of the manority of the American people and, b) Trump is so incredibly dirty and corrupt that he could be impeached in a New York minute if them that sit in Congress wanted to. Maybe there is also a third point c) the electoral college is about as relavant in modern America as a flint handaxe and it should be abolished.
That's not how impeachment works. The vote was still real.
Oh, for god's sake, stop preaching to us of Trump the sainted leader who won the election by a landslide. Nobody here is stupid enough to believe that winning the electoral college is an accurate reflection of what the American people wanted and nobody except his supporters care what the Electoral College spat out. The fact that Trump lost the popular vote is what accurately reflects what the American people wanted. The result we got, a complete blithering egotistical imbecile in the White House that even his sycophantic supporters struggle to defend, was due to an obsolete system designed to manipulate and twist the popular vote result out of shape. This obsolete machinery has hitherto been packaged as a 'sacred tradition of the Republic' and sold to us with flag waiving to the tune of patriotic music but people aren't buying it any more. As for impeachment, there has not been a president for a very long time that was more vulnerable to impeachment even before he took office than Trump is. Trump is has so much dirt and skullduggery in his past that impeaching him should be pretty easy if the ruling Republican elite in Washington actually wanted to. Nailing Trump for building that tower in Azerbaijan with a business partner that laundered money for the Iranian Revolutionary guard should be enough to get him investigated under the foreign corrupt practices act. The same goes for the shenanigans surrounding his towers in New York, Panama and probably every other such project he has ever built. Steve Bannon is right, if Trump is taken down it will be by the easiest route which is money laundering and other money related crime and corruption charges but only if that rotten husk and insult to the memory of Abraham Lincoln that calls itself the Republican party wants to and so far it doesn't.
As a Dutch person myself, I'm quite sure this is mostly (if not completely) propaganda. The original story provides 0 proof of anything and shows several inconsistencies.
Here's a thought, how about you either enlighten us about the nature of these inconsistencies or stop making nebulous accusations?
Who would have thought that if you just priced your products fairly you could gain all the market and crack down on pirating easily? It's not like this was something that everybody knew all along.
Yeah, and who would have thought that users would stop pirating your stuff if you just allowed your them to pay a subscription where they could download and watch your content on demand any time they want no matter which country they are in instead of being forced to buy easily scratched, easily broken DVD and BlueRay disks (which into the bargain are grossly over priced as you already pointed out) and where you don't have to deal with malware and all the other crap that goes with pirated content.
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LED lamps consume several times less electrical energy than incandescent bulbs.
I mean nowadays it is possible to save energy on lighting by less radical measures.
However, it would be very hard to cancel Daylight Saving Time. As there will be undoubtedly political populists trying to construct a career by defending this tradition.
A good part of opposition to reducing lighting energy came from governments pushing "energy saving" (ie, CFL) bulbs -- "energy saving bulb" being literally the name used in trade, at least in Poland. These bulbs cause massive pollution, are very dangerous if broken, and are unhealthy for eyesight (both due to flickering and bad spectrum).
Despite these flaws, legislation sounded like "energy saving" are the second coming while incadescents are Hitler reincarnated; obviously, some favours from CFL makers were involved. This made the public lose any trust in such measures.
And as most voters are irrational, a voice that says "THEY want to again change things contrary to what we always did" can indeed gain some votes.
Which "Energy saving" bulbs are you talking about? ... cause the OP was taking about LED bulbs which are solid state not Fluorescent ones. Compact fluorescent are particularly high in mercury and they are (or they used to be) a bit of a bitch to recycle. LED lights also contain various kinds of metals including lead,nickel, some also contain arsenic and (surprise, surprise) copper. However, incandescent bulbs contain very high levels of lead and mercury so it's not as if we are transitioning to something more polluting, it just that the LED bulb uses less energy than the incandescent and it lasts longer. Incidentally the most polluting LEDs are the coloured ones, it's the white LEDs that are most used for light bulbs who seem to contain the fewest contaminants. In the end the most important thing is which one of these, Incandescent, fluorescent or LEDs are the easiest to recycle and not rating LEDs as being disposable in conventional landfills. LED bulbs are electronics and should be sent to recycling plants like any other electronics waste for recycling since LEDs are up to 95% recyclable. Recycling is also important because of the lead and arsenic in the coloured LEDs which needs to be collected and safely disposed of or re-used.
First paragraph yo.
C. elegans is the only living being whose neural system has been analysed completely. It can be drawn as a circuit diagram or reproduced by computer software, so that the neural activity of the worm is simulated by a computer program.
They took the simulation of the worm's brain and trained it to balance a stick. They didn't build a neural network from the ground up with the sole intent of balancing a stick.
Yup, in fact the FA says:
This behaviour can be perfectly explained: it is determined by the worm’s nerve cells and the strength of the connections between them. When this simple reflex-network is recreated on a computer, then the simulated worm reacts in exactly the same way to a virtual stimulation – not because anybody programmed it to do so, but because this kind of behaviour is hard-wired in its neural network.
While narrow-AI that can totally trash any human at chess or something but sucks at everything else is interesting for limited applications it is neural networks that is the future of AI. It will be a long time before it is possible to design a set of algorithms that can outperform the result of 4,2 billion years of evolution. If you can simulate the neural network/brain of an insect or something of that level of sophistication, complete with its ocular and audio sensors you have the basics for the AI to run a self driving car better than anything we have today. We currently solve the problem of a self driving car with computers that are huge and use a monstrous amount of energy compared to what nature came up with. Nature packed the solution to a similar problem into a portion of the brain of an ant that lives on the amount of energy contained in the minuscule amount of protein it consumes daily. So, if you are an AI researcher, and if you find yourself proudly looking at the server running your self driving car software, take a look at an ant and realise that you have a looooooong way to go.
You're using some lovely RIAA math there, sport.
Wisconsin is paying nothing by offering tax breaks and tax credits for a company that otherwise would not even be setting up shop in Wisconsin.
You seem to assume that a government wouldn't be that stupid and corrupt, but you're totally wrong.
To lure Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, state residents will have to do more than just forgo taxes from the Taiwanese electronics giant. They will have to pay cash — writing checks for up to $200 million a year.
And because Wisconsin already waives almost all taxes on manufacturing profits in the state, these incentives represent not a lost opportunity at collecting revenue but an obligation to pay cash to Foxconn out of the state treasury for up to 15 years. When including a $150 million sales tax break for buying construction material, the incentive package could total up to $3 billion, according to the bill that lawmakers could vote on as soon as Tuesday.
Don't worry Wisconsin is a Republican controlled state. As we all now Republicans are the party of low taxes, small government and restraint in state expenditure. We can therefore rely upon them to vote no to this vast expenditure of money from the state treasury on the grounds that it makes no sense from a business point of view, that it is an intolerable government interference in the workings of the free market and that it is not in harmony with their long treasured Republican ideals of small government and limiting expenditure from the state treasury. Sir, you may rely upon the Republicans to be the voice of reason in this matter.
lol You are an idiot. Shenzhen is in China. This news is happening in Taiwan. How did you even get Shenzhen when it's not mentioned anywhere?? The subtitle is 'Taiwan's Innolux upbeat on mini LED display that can be used in cars'. How in the world do you miss that? God, you are probably American too. We are so fucked if this is the level of reading comprehension in this country.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company to be sure but it operates factories in mainland China. One of those factories is a flat-panel display factory in Shenzhen, China. He probably assumed that Foxconn is making these panels there which is not an unreasonable assumption. Myself, I have no idea where these panels are being made, it could be that Foxconn also has a flat-panel factory in Taiwan so this is my first and last contribution to this flame war.
Apple doesn't do things out of the goodness of their heart.
Can you name a corporation that does?
Nothing says protecting nature like 100 windmills on your ocean front view.
Or 100 dead ospreys on your beach.
Tall glass buildings kill waaay more birds than wind turbines. Why don't you start with those ugly eyesores. Also, birds and other animals going extinct because of climate change is far uglier in my opinion.
True, in fact research has shown that feral and domestic cats, power lines, windows, pesticides, automobiles and lighted communication towers all kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines. Furthermore, if I have to choose between gasoline fumes, diesel dust, NOx pollution, etc, .... and having my view spoilt by a few wind turbines then give me the turbines thank you very much.
1. New York Builds Windfarm for electricity 2. ....
3. Oil for liquid fuel, Feedstocks, plastics and lubricants on the way out ?
~48% of oil is used to make gasoline.
~23% is used to make diesel and heating oil.
~10 % is used to make jet fuel.
~5% is used to make asphalt.
The vast majority of oil is used for transportation. Feedstocks, plastics and lubricants fit somewhere into the remaining ~15% of oil that isn't used for transportation. Wind and solar are getting cheaper than oil and gas, oil extraction costs are only increasing, the cost of wind and solar is still on a downwards trend and will stay there for a while. Finally, electric vehicles are starting to take over the transportation sector and not just cars, people are even working on electrically powered ships and thinking about electric aircraft on short haul flights. All of this collectively means that the bottom is going to slowly fall out of the fossil fuel market over the next two or three decades and I don't think feedstocks, plastics and lubricants are going to sustain the oil industry in the long term at it's current levels of production. There is a reason the oil companies are starting to have trouble recruiting young people for the industry and it isn't just because all 'Millennials' and 'Generation Z' is a bunch of lib-tard tree huggers, they just see this coming.
Lots of revisionist history going on here.
Microsoft was just getting used to separating user space functions, which had turned XP prior to SP2 into an eggshell, so easily exploited that even bad script kiddies could pop a bubble and p0wn a machine.
Virus makers were a red herring. So were driver makers. It because impossible to regression test Windows because the software communities had build so many dependencies into the system, which were changed just as quickly by Microsoft.
Vista was simply a turd. There's no better way to describe it, and it's only after screaming hostilities did Microsoft pour sufficient resources to fix it so as to negate Vista into the more stable Windows 7-- which killed a lot of legacy problems, but also software compatibilities, libraries, functions, and functionality/behaviors.
Microsoft needed the money-- back during the phase where they made money on CALs and discrete licensing fees. In the middle of it, chaos ensued. It was a disaster.
Huh? That's interesting. I always figured Vista was Microsoft's second attempt at hitting the Ballmer Peak.
How about a cop who wants to protect life and serve the people of his community rather than shoot them? Let’s hire cops like that.
Learn what’s going on before opening fire on people. Or don't be police officers at all.
We don’t need you to shoot us. We can shoot each other just fine. We need a police force to prevent violence and loss of life, not cause it.
That is a very valid criticism and generally a good idea that works just fine in many other parts of the world to the point where some countries don't even arm their police officers. Your suggestion is, unfortunately, also fundamentally incompatible with the traditional American fondness for 'come down on them like a ton of bricks' justice where police are heavily militarised, eager to shoot first and ask questions later and trained by defence contractors to use tactics pioneered by the US Army and the IDF when dealing with insurgents in the Middle East.
Another ignorant ass hat that wants to cover up apples design flaw with some apple only physics bullshit.
We seem to have hit a Fuckface Von Nervestick.
-- Jon Stewart
Another awww. Useless shills like you should be outright banned. Your worse than paid advertising for apple. If you dont like it here maybe /. isnt for you. Spread your lies elsewhere; appleinsider seems pretty tech ignorant, try your luck there.
Dang, it's been a while since I came across somebody who sucked as much ass at trolling as you do.
This is what a post-truth world looks like. The truth is whatever you prefer it to be...
... and contradicting a fanatic, left or right wing, is censorship.
it will put you where you would have been if this feature had not been implemented.
It will give people back all the time they lost waiting for their slow-assed phone all this time? No? Yeah. It won't. It does not people people where they would have been. Stop apologizing for apple using insane bullshit logic.
Congratulations, by trashing Apple for not extending your lifespan by the same amount of minutes you feel you lost waiting for apps to load you have finally taken Apple hatred beyond what the laws of physics can deliver.
If I'm going to be taxed by anybody I'd prefer it be the government because I can oust those bozos every four years by voting them out out of office.
That's where you're wrong. You might be able to cast a vote every four years but your vote alone doesn't change your situation. If you just change service providers (assuming that it's possible in the first place) then your situation is immediately improved. Furthermore, the TLAs (i.e. the FCC) do not change every four years because you voted for a new president or a new senator or whatever. So it's actually incorrect that you can oust the "bozos" every four years. There's a reason that the euphemism "revolving door" exists. To go yet further still: what exactly has changed when one party takes power? The rhetoric does, but not much else as far as I can tell. It seems to me that it's just more crap from a different butt hole and meanwhile the deficits continue and the debt climbs and the roads still suck and the same "corporate oligarchs" that you complain about are still abusing their monopolies (assuming their protection money is all paid up...). The real solution is two fold: 1. Cut government power: this prevents them from creating or protecting monopolies. 2. Break up the monopolies and end all protections for them thus forcing them to compete.
One small point ... monopolies can exist in the complete absence of any government at all so your supposition that government power is the key factor in creating monopolies is wrong. In fact, historically, government power has been one of the few things that broke up monopolies so you are going to need government power to end monopolies (because contrary to popular myth, the fairy godmother of the free market won't do it for you within an acceptable time frame) so if you cut government power you are strengthening the monopolist's power.
Carriers are required to provide that information to the federal government. It's one of the things in the FISA bills that keep quietly passing Congress.
Are you seriously asserting carriers are continuously sending the wareabouts of every cell user to the federal government? If so feel free to backup your claim with publically available evidence. Wholesale collection of CDRs from everyone was ended years ago.
Yup, and what makes people think that the government agency running this national 5G network would just alluvasudden ignore whatever laws there are in place that currently prevent the security services from bullying private mobile service providers into tracking every user's location in real time and warehouse the data? If the US security apparatus wanted to implement an Orwellian system to monitor the movements of every US citizen via their cellphone it will not make a damn bit of difference whether the 5G network is publicly or privately owned.
You're making a big assumption: The government can implement the network competently.
Consider healthcare.gov.
That is a double edged argument. There are plenty of examples from all over the world where private enterprise took over previously government owned and operated road & rail grids, water supply systems, electric grids, communications grids, public real estate assets, etc ... that gave these private parties an effective monopoly. They then let then let these things fall apart through lack of maintenance and investment while effectively taxing the hell out of citizenry. That last part is what has effectively happened in the US mobile and internet service sectors. The telcos have divvied the country up into competition free fiefdoms and are taxing the hell out of the citizenry for totally sub standard service. If I'm going to be taxed by anybody I'd prefer it be the government because I can oust those bozos every four years by voting them out out of office. Ousting corporate oligarchs takes billions of dollars and a hostile takeover.
Placing government in control of a 5G network everyone uses grants government means of directly tracking high resolution movements of everyone everywhere in real time. Hard to come up with a worse more dangerous idea than this one.
Why? All that is necessary now to achieve total surveillance is bully all the big providers into feeding the NSA data or just to allow the NSA unrestricted access to each providers backbone and the NSA has done that already. The horrible eventuality you foresee is already the norm thanks to the Republicans and Corporate Democrats (a few lone dissidents on both sides excepted). One big advantage of a national 5G grid would be that new service providers will be able to get equal access to the national grid and to challenge the big boys and eliminate the mobile service fiefdoms the US is currently divided up into and if there is no equal access it would be easier to bully the Fed into allowing it on a national grid by going through the courts than fighting a bunch of Telcos operating as a cartel. In Europe communities with municipal network backbones often have the liveliest competition and the lowest prices due to equal access for everybody both big national and small local players. Of course competition should have been enforced long a go through cartel, price fixing and competition laws since the US Telcos have not made much effort to hide their anti-competitive behaviour. Still, I wouldn't worry, the big Telcos are hard at work lobbying to kill this idea of a national 5G grid to protect their competition free fiefdoms so the current totally rotten system is safe.
Because the location isn't sensitive. These bases aren't hidden, they are fortified forward operating positions.
What is inside the base is sensitive, what information there is sensitive, what force composition is there is sensitive.
Oh well there's no problem then.
The Russians know where these bases are, the Chinese know where these bases are, they both also know what force composition is there because they have satellites photographing these bases at regular intervals and in some cases probably ground assets sniffing around them as well, even the news media probably knows the location of many of these bases. The only people who didn't know the location of most of these bases is the general public and the vast majority of them don't care.
The electoral college is a check and balance against gerrymandering. Of course, gerrymandering still won him the presidency. But don't blame the electoral college.
There is no gerrymandering in presidential elections except the electoral college. It is an obsolete 18th century election result manipulation instrument meant to guard against precisely the kind of demagogue that Trump is. However, the electoral college hasn’t worked as intended for over a century because for it to work the college members would have to think for thrmselves and vote against the demagogue rather than vote like sheep for him. Presidential elections should be a one-man-one-vote, popular vote wins affair, end of story!
As much as I enjoy seeing a frothing-at-the-mouth temper tantrum from a disappointed Hillary lover, I must point out that you don't get to change the rules after the game already been played. In the real world, losers don't get "participant" trophies that pampered millennials have come to expect. The electoral college is working as intended. The great compromise helps the lesser populated states from getting railroaded by the population centers. When you finish jumping up and down ranting about how CA, NY and the high population cities should be the deciders for all the rest of us, maybe you will wise up and see why we don't want to turn our power over to the nanny staters, crybullies, and the irrational numbskulls that think Hillary should be "reinstated". You're going to need a Constitutional amendment to drop the electoral college and I don't see it being ratified by the states you disagree with. So, in short, tough shit loser.
Hehe... Did you know that it is possible to win the electoral college and become POTUS with ~27% of the popular vote behind you? If that ever happens I hope whoever does it is a Clinton just so that I can hear you shriek so loud with outrage that your shrill, high-pitched girly scram shatters armour glass.
It's amazing how so many apparently smart people do not understand the "electoral college." It lessens the chance that the President is selected only by the voters of a few metropolises. Anyhow, if you didn't learn about the "electoral college" in school you can learn about it at Wikipedia (assuming there's a good article for it there that hasn't been vandalized by anti-American ideologues).
Are you referring to the good old argument that the electoral college is gerrymandered '...to protect the little states...'? If the electoral college was meant to protect the little states it is failing spectacularly. If you take a look at where candidates campaign the most it is in a few key swing states. The small states get next to no attention.
The electoral college is a check and balance against gerrymandering. Of course, gerrymandering still won him the presidency. But don't blame the electoral college.
There is no gerrymandering in presidential elections except the electoral college. It is an obsolete 18th century election result manipulation instrument meant to guard against precisely the kind of demagogue that Trump is. However, the electoral college hasn’t worked as intended for over a century because for it to work the college members would have to think for thrmselves and vote against the demagogue rather than vote like sheep for him. Presidential elections should be a one-man-one-vote, popular vote wins affair, end of story!
For all that long rant, you missed the point. Impeach Trump and you don't get a do-over, you get the line of succession.
I know that, you get Pence and then Paul Ryan, Orrin Hatch, Rex Tillerson.... (bit like a monarchy isn’t it?) ... but I don’t care about that. The only two points I was trying to make are, a) Trump’s presidency is many things but it is not the will of the manority of the American people and, b) Trump is so incredibly dirty and corrupt that he could be impeached in a New York minute if them that sit in Congress wanted to. Maybe there is also a third point c) the electoral college is about as relavant in modern America as a flint handaxe and it should be abolished.
Re-instate Hillary Clinton as President, now !
That's not how impeachment works. The vote was still real.
Oh, for god's sake, stop preaching to us of Trump the sainted leader who won the election by a landslide. Nobody here is stupid enough to believe that winning the electoral college is an accurate reflection of what the American people wanted and nobody except his supporters care what the Electoral College spat out. The fact that Trump lost the popular vote is what accurately reflects what the American people wanted. The result we got, a complete blithering egotistical imbecile in the White House that even his sycophantic supporters struggle to defend, was due to an obsolete system designed to manipulate and twist the popular vote result out of shape. This obsolete machinery has hitherto been packaged as a 'sacred tradition of the Republic' and sold to us with flag waiving to the tune of patriotic music but people aren't buying it any more. As for impeachment, there has not been a president for a very long time that was more vulnerable to impeachment even before he took office than Trump is. Trump is has so much dirt and skullduggery in his past that impeaching him should be pretty easy if the ruling Republican elite in Washington actually wanted to. Nailing Trump for building that tower in Azerbaijan with a business partner that laundered money for the Iranian Revolutionary guard should be enough to get him investigated under the foreign corrupt practices act. The same goes for the shenanigans surrounding his towers in New York, Panama and probably every other such project he has ever built. Steve Bannon is right, if Trump is taken down it will be by the easiest route which is money laundering and other money related crime and corruption charges but only if that rotten husk and insult to the memory of Abraham Lincoln that calls itself the Republican party wants to and so far it doesn't.
As a Dutch person myself, I'm quite sure this is mostly (if not completely) propaganda. The original story provides 0 proof of anything and shows several inconsistencies.
Here's a thought, how about you either enlighten us about the nature of these inconsistencies or stop making nebulous accusations?
Who would have thought that if you just priced your products fairly you could gain all the market and crack down on pirating easily? It's not like this was something that everybody knew all along.
Yeah, and who would have thought that users would stop pirating your stuff if you just allowed your them to pay a subscription where they could download and watch your content on demand any time they want no matter which country they are in instead of being forced to buy easily scratched, easily broken DVD and BlueRay disks (which into the bargain are grossly over priced as you already pointed out) and where you don't have to deal with malware and all the other crap that goes with pirated content.